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Change Default size of hover [message #842356]

Thu, 12 April 2012 08:13

Andreas Graf

Messages: 211
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Dear all,

is it possible to change the size of the hover that Xtext provides? In our project, we are presenting quite some information in the hover, and it is somewhat awkward that the user has to focus the hover to see all information by scrolling.

Optimal would be adjusting the size to the information that is displayed, alternatively changing the fixed size would be OK.

Thanks,

Andreas

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Re: Change Default size of hover [message #842398 is a reply to message #842356]

Thu, 12 April 2012 08:57

Christian Dietrich

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Registered: July 2009

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Did you try to customize AbstractHover.getHoverControlCreator

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Re: Change Default size of hover [message #842411 is a reply to message #842398]

Thu, 12 April 2012 09:14

Andreas Graf

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Registered: July 2009

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I am not quite sure where to put the size there. Should I implement my own getHoverControlCreator() and my own implementaion of DefaultInformationControl?

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Re: Change Default size of hover [message #842425 is a reply to message #842411]

Thu, 12 April 2012 09:28

Christian Dietrich

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Hi the DefaultInformationControl may already have size properties you
can customize I guess. But for details you should have a look into
the code yourself. Subclassing DispatchingEObjectTextHover should be
done in minutes.

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Re: Change Default size of hover [message #901294 is a reply to message #842425]

Fri, 10 August 2012 16:19

Dobes Vandermeer

Messages: 26
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

There seems to be a bug in the eclipse hover control where it doesn't calculate the size of <pre> blocks properly. There are probably some other cases it doesn't handle well either.

To see this try creating a java file and use a <pre> block in your javadocs, then hover over the element to see what your <pre> block looks like. For me at least, with eclipse juno on Windows 7, the hover popup is too small.

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